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David Trotter: Air Raid Panic, 9 October 2014
The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-41
by Brett Holman.
Ashgate, 290 pp., £70, June 2014,978 1 4094 4733 7 Show More
by Brett Holman.
Ashgate, 290 pp., £70, June 2014,
“... after being shot in mid-performance by the top villain, who realises that the gaff’s been blown. Brett Holman doesn’t refer to The 39 Steps in his densely packed study of the ‘fear of the bomber’ which, he wants to show, took hold of the public imagination in Britain in the period between the wars. But the episode that sets the tone for his ... ”
